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The troublesome grey area is the part where people do it for control.

There is also sort of "exclusive design" that is practiced. You know - where you can't get comfortable on a park bench because you might sleep on it, or a ramp or stairs are built to exclude skateboards.

Same thing happens with websites, to "control" adblockers or "reader mode" and other nonsense.
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Ah, because countries with Islamic finance are renowned for the strength of their economies.

The Catholic Church prohibited usury across Europe until the invention of the contractum trinius, allowing the economic revolution that powered the Renaissance and the transition to modernity.
>Go to the third world and you'll see that reliability and longevity give Toyota a huge cachet that is basically unrivaled.

>That effect is amplified in countries that have import tariffs on automobiles, because the secondary market is large.

This is the exact same naive logic people use to justify Tesla's valuating.

On one hand you have yuppie fanboys bindly harping on about Tesla's magical engineering in the face of an Impala interior topped with a big tablet and panel gaps from the 80s.

On the other hand there is another yuppie fanboy harping about "muh hilix" despite the fact that Toyota has lied through its teeth about rust in North America for ~30yr, the Hilux/LC aren't outstandingly (in the literal sense) popular in Asia and people in Africa/ME will bolt a machine gun to anything that runs regardless of brand.

Camrys and Priuses are popular in the 3rd world because they are popular among moneyed people (i.e. the people who trade in 10yo cars instead of selling private party) in the first world and because of how the used car export market works (basically vaccuming up "nice" trade-ins that are too old for first world lenders to finance) they wind up popular in the 3rd world. People act like this is special about Toyota but it's not. The 3rd world is chock full of examples of other cars those same demographics buy. Chile practically runs on the 2nd-4th Gen Honda CRV and the GMT900 Chevy Suburban may as well be the official vehicle of Mexico (these are but two examples).

My point is both brands have the same moat of moneyed first world delusion surrounding their stock. Toyota just isn't a meme-stock popular with retail investors.
The UK is probably worse off for having such an obvious clue that someone is high class. Accents are harder to switch than clothes and a haircut.
I never understood how people not close (or bookmark) tabs.
When I'm heavily working i have 20-30 tabs open.
But after the work is done, i'll close what I don't need and bookmark the rest.

Then again I also tend not to have more than 5 mails in my inbox.
Open source is not a business model. You can make money in open source, but not by accident. You have to find a viable business which incorporates open source. One common approach is SaaS, where the software is open source and you provide value by selling hosted versions, with paid support, competing on the reliability and utility of your infrastructure, expertise of your support staff, and integrity of your business.
Closing the account is one thing, but I didn't expect that the markets can be manipulated in such a blatant manner in the U.S. So much for free markets.
Truly is it uncompressed PCM WAV audio? In that case 44kHz 16-bit 1-channel is 705 kbps.

Are there not any good nonproprietary lossless low latency audio codecs? A brief look at Wikipedia shows a couple that are 5ms or lower, but either they are proprietary or they are low bitrate.
Coordinating millions of people to pump a stock so that a short squeeze will occur is very different from you doing it on your own.

Pump and Dump schemes have been illegal forever. This is no different.
How much does it cost TikTok to pay for a piece like this? Russia == Bad, so obviously now TikTok == Good.

If you want to help oppressed people, open your borders to them. Otherwise, just let them run their own countries.
How is this not making people cynical, even for a person like me who does not own any share of GME? And isn't cynicism one of the greatest dangers to a system, for people stop trusting the system no matter what?
Similar to calling all retail investors amateurs.
This makes no sense - if they had closed their short positions of millions of shares and had the squeeze happen, the share price would have spiked far higher than it is now.
> You can have a small community that way, but you can't do a global "connecting everyone" thing.

But they already have a giant global community. They now need to sustain it, that's a very different task and one better served by moderation. They are already being out-competed on how extreme a community can be by the various newcomers.

They are the incumbent now, with the incumbent's advantages. What remains to be seen is if they will move to take on the incumbent's responsibilities (which they have done here and there, and seem to be doing more of) or if they'll shirk it (which they did for far too long). In the long term they will make more money in a world that isn't on fire.
You absolutely can. "Expect" doesn't necessarily mean "think will happen". It can also refer to having "expectations" of responsibility, which is good. If you don't, then the irresponsible will never hear any criticism of their behavior. How clear it was that they were going to misbehave is beside that specific point.
cyclomatic complexity and computer science isn't history.

Not sure where the disconnect is because at no point have I said you shouldn't learn how to do your job correctly - and understanding Big O, SOLID, YANGI, etc are all important to know... but have nothing to do with history.

So again... history isn't needed to be a good engineer. And being a good engineer and KISS programming is possible without understanding 100 years of history.
No, "skinny fat" is actually detrimental, as your body doesn't handle excess energy well. Your body then stores fat in-between your organs as visceral fat, which is the "I don't know where to put this" kind of panic. The visceral fat is what's really indication of health problems (the "fat fat" people get it too ofc), where subcutaneous fat isn't as unhealthy.

Fructose intake (making up at least half the sugars in most sugar sweeteners) isn't metabolized like glucose, with a delicate and specialized load response and processing. It's metabolized like alcohol in the liver and then directly converted to fat, then shoved into the blood stream. Fructose is the reason why you increasingly see non-alcoholics with "alcoholic" fatty liver.

Now, when you eat an apple, the fructose content doesn't hurt you (unless your digestive system gets issues with it), because it's processed slowly, has to be broken out of the fiber matrix and is partially broken down by bacteria. However, blending the same apple, the fructose will overload your system all the same as drinking fructose water. Btw. many "healthy sugars" actually have a worse fru:glu ratio than table sugar, e.g. agave syrup or honey.
Seems to be the same problem to me from two ends of the same stick.

That ideal experience of just plugging in and immediately starting to charge is restricted to a particular car brand.

From that perspective, what a ridiculous situation which could be solved with cooperation but ... anyways, USB-C, Lion, etc etc ...

In conclusion, not just the independent charging networks are at fault here.
I never tried, but this says you can : https://robinhood.com/us/en/support/articles/transfer-stocks...
I don't get how Robinhood can make this move. I see this move as a lose/lose. Anyone care to emphasize with them? Maybe they see themselves as saving the lay investor?

But then from a price action perspective,
- If GME goes up, people are going to have the sentiment that Robinhood stopped them from making money to protect the fat cats
- If GME goes down, people are going to blame RH.
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> This is a resolution to ban encryption. Plain and simple.

Yes I do know that this is your viewpoint - thank you for repeating it. But, as I also repeatedly said, I have a hard time seeing it because, well, the resolution does in fact not explicitly ban (E2E) encryption.

So can you please help convince me and fellow ignorami by providing a link or two? Is there maybe a statement by a council member? A proposal for the type of backdoor/encryption type the council would like to see implemented?

I think something like that would really move the discussion forward.
I literally cheered when I saw that.
I'm in the first trimester of the manufacturing process, excited but also having some sticker shock at day care options.

Never built something so initially unstable that ends up Turing complete before.
I was going to say the same thing but it’s probably a cardboard box filled with paper. Somebody who understands the stuff needs to spend the time to go through it and scan it and catalog it. And given the time crunch for the test of Vol 4, not to mention the rest I don’t want Knuth doing it.
Simply ridiculous. I own quite a few stocks, but still i considered using robinhood due to far less friction.

Obviously I'll abstain from that for the foreseeable future.
This is so over the line that reps Cortez and Cruz both agree it’s ‘unacceptable’, and would push for hearings on the matter...
I wouldn't hold my breath if I were you. As much as it is discussed and promoted in certain circles, it has basically no traction in national politics and its hard to see that it ever will since national level politics is currently pre-occupied with trying to figure out if crimes are actually illegal when their own party does them.
> The domain was stolen.

Yes. At the time, and with the information available, it looked like an isolated incident. It now appears that this affects several, dozens maybe, or potentially many more domains after what appears to be a social engineering attack at a registrar. Check your domains!
Right I’m seeing Vanguard not allowing it which I don’t believe is connected to Citadel.
> restricting rent increases

No, that'll just create a lottery system and unemployment or lower wages, because people won't be able to move to the jobs.

> eliminating zoning restrictions that limit housing

Yes, this would be great.
Which doesn't matter - averaging down is a valid strategy.
I encourage folks to actually read the linked article instead of basing their commentary on the shoddy title.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41928-020-00523-3

Abstract:

> Resistive memory technologies could be used to create intelligent systems that learn locally at the edge. However, current approaches typically use learning algorithms that cannot be reconciled with the intrinsic non-idealities of resistive memory, particularly cycle-to-cycle variability. Here, we report a machine learning scheme that exploits memristor variability to implement Markov chain Monte Carlo sampling in a fabricated array of 16,384 devices configured as a Bayesian machine learning model. We apply the approach experimentally to carry out malignant tissue recognition and heart arrhythmia detection tasks, and, using a calibrated simulator, address the cartpole reinforcement learning task. Our approach demonstrates robustness to device degradation at ten million endurance cycles, and, based on circuit and system-level simulations, the total energy required to train the models is estimated to be on the order of microjoules, which is notably lower than in complementary metal– oxide–semiconductor (CMOS)-based approaches.
We have a lot of small start-ups, the successful ones go to the US to get more financing and less taxes.
The Epic suit doesn’t seem to be very successful so far. What’s the likelihood a FB suit would do better?
Ask HN: Given GME, WallStreetBets – are there any uncensorable social platforms?
Given Discords banning of the WallStreetBets server, Robinhood disabling customer accounts, a likely inevitable reigning or banning of r/WallStreetBets, plus what happened to Parler earlier this month, it's clear there's a need for uncensorable social media (which doesn't necessarily mean unmoderated), free from App Stores, AWS, DNS or otherwise.

While platforms like Diaspora and Mastodon have existed for a while, is there any place that could act as a viable and uncensorable alternative to r/WallStreetBets? That implies scalability, the possibility for "network effects" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect), a UX that "non nerds" could handle and probably more.

What do you think are the promising technologies and platforms that could become viable alternatives?
Then you can tax landlords an funnel money back into UBI
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tl;dr The military wants to build fully automated, lethal defense systems capable of destroying a large volume of targets. Sounds like plausible reasoning; a state like China could pump out a million drones per day if they wanted to. OTOH, what's good for the goose is good for the gander; with a tweak to the target identification AI, such systems could easily be used against humans.

It occurs to me that a simpler technology could be employed against drones: grapeshot. Also banned by the Geneva convention. Sounds like the lesser of two evils, but not nearly as profitable to the military industrial complex
Oh sure. Talking to strangers, those strangers turning into acquaintances, and those acquaintances turning into friends is an art that seems to be lost. It's much more common in smaller towns where you only have so many people to choose from and see the same people over and over.
First of all, the exchanges could never impose that rule, because in order to sell you need to have someone buying. It is discount brokerages imposing the rule, and they are doing so because they saw what looked like market manipulation and are not interested in helping with that sort of thing. They could have stopped trading entirely, but that would have been worse for their customers, who would have watched their positions lose value and been helpless to do anything about it.
On the pattern day trading rule its also worth noting that you are exempt from that above $25k on Robinhood. As I watched the subreddit over the past few weeks I saw a lot of folks happy that their account was now no longer subject to the pattern day trading rule. They started out below $25k but growth in GME value pushed them over $25k
I'm sorry I simply cannot understand how you can read the entirety of my comment and see that as entitled and wanting something for free.

I could fork a project and make the fix in my own repo. In fact you have to do that to make a pull request. I even specifically lay out scenarios where I absolutely agree it's not a good return on time invested for the maintainers to bother. But if I forked an open-source project every time I had a bug fix that required time from the maintainer that's worse for everyone. My point is that even though I fully understand and support where the litestream policy is coming from, for anything beyond a personal project I think some flexibility in accepting outside contributions is a win for everyone. I'll do all the work I can without having rights on the project. I'll sign over all my rights. Have tests? I'll run them and post the results. But a rigid "love it or fork it" attitude is a lose-lose.
You seem very comfortable with the idea of imposing what works for you, your preferences, on others. You might want to think about that some more
Nice! My company is a rather large S3 customer (among other services), and the first thing I thought of was "how much would this balloon our AWS bill, esp. S3". Would be curious to see what the cost (and time) requirements of replicating S3 would be.
While what you say is plausible, can't it also simply be that they saw a gigantic portion of their userbase making these incredibly risky bets and they were worried that it'd end up blowing in their face?
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Do you have any tricks to design CREATE TABLE and INSERT statements so the SQLite file has the best layout (proximity of data) ?
The trade screen could just display a warning that the stocks are in question are experiencing high volatility, and require the user to click something to indicate that they understand the risks.
But we do have lots of housing, it's just located in places people don't want to live. Rents are high in places they do want to be, and that's partly a positional thing -- if you want to live where the top-10% of earners live, you need to bid against them for housing.
not a fan of her, but she is right on this one!!!
I have an honest question, since a lot of your predictions have been wrong so far. Why are you not interested more in some alternative explanation/theory that would better fit data you have at hand ?
> Is it manipulation if you're so predictable that an action by me causes you to always act a certain way? And I profit when you take that action?

It depends, but approximately, yes if there was any intent to exploit that fact. See spoofing, other prosecutions for creating short squeezes, etc.

https://dealbreaker.com/2012/06/phil-falcones-alleged-piggis...

The rationale is that markets are better for participants when their prices are accurate and reflect true supply and demand. Price manipulation subverts that, so the SEC disallows it (except in some cases where manipulation is explicitly allowed for historical reasons).

> refused to cover their shorts (I'm probably using the wrong terminology) and left them open, this wouldn't be an issue, no?

This is imprecise; hedge funds might cover short positions to hedge further losses, or because their prime broker might require them to maintain a certain margin (to reduce counterparty risk). I have no experience in institutional investing, so that's a guess.

> Or, conversely, if market makers refused to sell options on overly volatile stocks / stocks being manipulated?

Market makers will increase a premium for options on "overly volatile stocks." If the risk is too high, then they may stop selling the options altogether. But the problem is — it's difficult to predict which next stock WSB might start manipulating. That's another issue. If regulatory agencies don't step in and prevent this type of manipulation, the premiums on all retail-adjacent options will be higher because of the increased risk and fear that a capricious WSB crowd might turn on a MM. That's bad for people who use options "correctly" — not for gambling, but as a way to hedge and reduce risk.
> businesses with less than 200 employees is allowed

This is great!
Like the apple face tracking mouse pointer, where you raise your eyebrows to click.

https://youtu.be/wAVij3tTAxE
My interpretation of the evidence leads to the opposite conclusion. Here's a good summary:

https://www.slowboring.com/p/induced-demand
> However why not just disable margin trading on these stocks instead of shutting them off altogether?

Yes... or simply increase the margin.
You can (and people frequently do) trade options on RH, which are inherently leveraged. But RH is just a broker - it’s not on the other side of the trades itself.
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I bet you could take advantage of the fact that the function generated with feedforward + relu is piecewise linear to mesh the resulting SDF really efficiently.
Exactly. This is why I was so happy about it. It was a pattern I was familiar with on macOS (IOSurface) and I'd known Windows had it.

I'd noticed at the time that Chrome used ANGLE (a framework to present an OpenGL ES interface on top of a different graphics framework at runtime with the option of going interprocess) so that the tab sandbox processes could draw into the GPU sandbox process, I was curious why (at least for macOS) that they weren't rendering into an IOSurface and sharing the handle to the other processes (The answer being to use the lowest common denominator of features across the platforms you want to support).

By comparison, the state of 3D acceleration was sad on Linux. You couldn't touch your fancy GPU without an X server running. Even if wayland itself fails as a successor to Xorg, the work that was done to separate the graphics drivers, 3D stack, and buffer management from being a monolithic plugin to Xorg was well worth the time investment.
I've experienced both.

The first place I worked as a dev, they had copious amounts of documentation and such an expansive wiki, every time I asked something, the common response was, "fates, it's in the wiki."

I did have quite a bit of onboarding, but after a few weeks, the purpose of handing me off to their documentation was to make me more independent and solve the problems myself

Conversely, I started a new FTE role at a large health care corporation. No training, no onboarding, not even a cursory tour of the network, what source control they use, literally nothing.

The amount of time I wasted learning all of this I'm sure cost the company more money than having a proper onboarding and training program. I pushed my manager and his manager on the importance of onboarding (we were hiring a lot of new devs at the time) but his retort was "it's not in our budget, you just have to learn as you go." Ironically, having spoken up, every time a new dev joined our team, they were pawned off on me to bring them up to speed on everything they needed to know - all the while handling a full load of project work.

Not properly onboarding developers has a huge impact on multiple areas of a business. I was shocked a smaller company knew this, but the larger, entrenched corporation wanted nothing to do with addressing this.
Bruh, lets be honest its GameStop. That company IS going the way of blockbuster. "pure gambling" is a stretch everyone can read the tea leaves here. Honestly pre-covid when was the last time you went into a GameStop and saw more than two other people.
It's becoming extremely clear that EVs are the future of automobiles.

Toyota, GM, VW, Ford, etc have spent most of the past 10 years telling us that EVs are a joke. Why would you want to invest in management that missed such a pivotal industry turning point?

They weren't just slow to move to EVs, they mocked them.

People have been saying for years that these companies can pivot, but it turns out to sell EVs you also need to invest in infrastructure and right now that infra (at least in the US) is a shambles.

So right as we're on the elbow of the adoption hockey stick, Tesla is the only company really positioned to capture that growth well.
We're definitely not fans of Joe, and were a little concerned about the association early on, but we've talked with hundreds of potential customers since we started and it hasn't come up yet. A lot of them get the RPO pun quickly, though!
"The Robin Hood effect is an economic occurrence where income is redistributed so that economic inequality is reduced. The effect is named after Robin Hood, said to have stolen from the rich to give to the poor."

So I think in Robinhood's POV, hedge funds are the poor.
And they were probably informed in advance that Robinhood was about to limit trading so they could short the stock at the exact right time.
For the several years I've been following, I've never once seen the n word or anything close to racist memes.

They do make a lot of autism jokes (mostly pointed at themselves) and plenty of f bombs, but neither of which is generally seen as ban-hammer-levels of problematic (whether or not it is is up to you)
Only a small fraction of RH's customers bought into the fantasy they are fighting some kind of revolution against hedge funds (or that 'the smoking man' paid them a visit in the night...). The vast majority don't care about any of these stocks. Also, by making trading so easy RH has a responsibility to protect amateur investors from making terrible financial decisions. If you really want to buy game stop stock or whatever there are plenty of ways to do so. So they are by no means "screwing" their customers.